I've just migrated from OpenSUSE 11.0 to LinuxMint Elyssa (installed Mint in wife's computer and fell in love with it...) and, so far, I like the change.

There is something, though, that I miss from SUSE. I had this problem with Ubuntu in the past: installing my scanner.

With Ubuntu (and now also with Mint) I had to install libsane-extras and then I had to tweek a bit with epson.conf and epkowa.conf (that tweeking, at the time, took me hours of googling...). When I switched to SUSE 11.0, that problem vanished: I just had to install a pakage named something like "epson-proprietary-drivers" and then, via Yast, go to Hardware --> Scanner--> Detect --> Install.

I certainly would love to see such a feature in Mint! It's the only thing that made me sigh with the switch, since I'm in a phase of my life in which I want to work more with my computer and work less for the computer.

Is it a hard thing to do? Is it a driver issue? Does SUSE has any kind of partnership with Epson that it's not allowed in other distros?

I hope the scanner is working...I really doubt openSuse or any distro has such a special arrangementHave you seen this topicviewtopic.php?f=51&t=1763I am not 100% sure it works with Elyssa, but I think it should

ouchWe have some problems with grub - but not of the kind that kills your diskMainly two - Ubiquity (the installer) sometimes fails when it's to install grub and a problem when you have a mix of SATA and IDE disks and add/remove a disk and unfortunately it also affects USB disk. There are solutions to both.Have you tried to repair grub?How to herehttp://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... _your_grub

The problem was I wasn't even able to run a LiveCD if the hard drive was plugged

Anyway, I've runned other kind of recovery CD's: RIPLinux and Ultimate Boot CD. With both I've tried to restore MBR to the boot sector, but without any luck because I got read errors from the disk. I've searched around and I think that this is actually a physical problem with the hard drive. I was able to recover my files from the /home partition with PhotoRec, so I'll just send the disk to warranty.